The World - News from Oct. 7, 1988
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American MIA activists dropped into the Mekong River dozens of packets of cash stamped with an offer of $2.4 million for anyone bringing a U.S. prisoner of war safely out of Laos. Earlier, two of the activists were arrested in Laos. About 540 American servicemen are listed as missing in action in Laos after the Vietnam War. U.S. officials say they have no proof that any of the nearly 2,400 Americans missing in Indochina, including those in Laos, are still alive.
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